[syn: succession, sequence]
5. several repetitions of a melodic phrase in different keys;
VERB (2)
1. arrange in a sequence;
2. determine the order of constituents in;
- Example: "They sequenced the human genome"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Sequence \Se"quence\ (s[=e]"kwens), n. [F. s['e]quence, L.
sequentia, fr. sequens. See Sequent.]
1. The state of being sequent; succession; order of
following; arrangement.
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How art thou a king
But by fair sequence and succession? --Shak.
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Sequence and series of the seasons of the year.
--Bacon.
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2. That which follows or succeeds as an effect; sequel;
consequence; result.
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The inevitable sequences of sin and punishment.
--Bp. Hall.
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3. (Philos.) Simple succession, or the coming after in time,
without asserting or implying causative energy; as, the
reactions of chemical agents may be conceived as merely
invariable sequences.
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4. (Mus.)
(a) Any succession of chords (or harmonic phrase) rising
or falling by the regular diatonic degrees in the same
scale; a succession of similar harmonic steps.
(b) A melodic phrase or passage successively repeated one
tone higher; a rosalia.
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5. (R.C.Ch.) A hymn introduced in the Mass on certain
festival days, and recited or sung immediately before the
gospel, and after the gradual or introit, whence the name.
--Bp. Fitzpatrick.
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Originally the sequence was called a Prose, because
its early form was rhythmical prose. --Shipley.
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6. (Card Playing)
(a) (Whist) Three or more cards of the same suit in
immediately consecutive order of value; as, ace, king,
and queen; or knave, ten, nine, and eight.
(b) (Poker) All five cards, of a hand, in consecutive
order as to value, but not necessarily of the same
suit; when of one suit, it is called a sequence
flush.
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7. the specific order of any linear arrangement of items; as,
the sequence of amino acid residues in a protein; the
sequence of instructions in a computer program; the
sequence of acts in a variety show.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Sequence \Se"quence\, v. t. (Biochem.)
to determine the sequence of; as, to sequence a protein or a
DNA fragment.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
sequence
n 1: serial arrangement in which things follow in logical order
or a recurrent pattern; "the sequence of names was
alphabetical"; "he invented a technique to determine the
sequence of base pairs in DNA"
2: a following of one thing after another in time; "the doctor
saw a sequence of patients" [syn: sequence, chronological
sequence, succession, successiveness, chronological
succession]
3: film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop
a given subject in a movie [syn: sequence, episode]
4: the action of following in order; "he played the trumps in
sequence" [syn: succession, sequence]
5: several repetitions of a melodic phrase in different keys
v 1: arrange in a sequence
2: determine the order of constituents in; "They sequenced the
human genome"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
134 Moby Thesaurus words for "sequence":
Indian file, aftereffect, afterlife, aftermath, alternation,
arrangement, array, articulation, bank, buzz, by-product, catena,
catenation, chain, chain reaction, chaining, chasing,
classification, concatenation, connectedness, connection,
consecution, consecutiveness, consequence, consequent, consistency,
continuity, continuum, corollary, course, cycle, degree,
derivation, derivative, descent, development, disposal,
disposition, distillate, distribution, dogging, drone, effect,
endless belt, endless round, event, eventuality, eventuation, file,
filiation, following, fruit, future time, gamut, gradation,
grouping, hangover, harvest, heeling, hierarchy, hounding, hum,
issue, lateness, legacy, line, lineage, logical outcome, monotone,
next life, nexus, offshoot, offspring, order, ordering,
orderliness, organization, outcome, outgrowth, pendulum,
periodicity, place, placement, plenum, postdate, postdating,
posteriority, powder train, precipitate, procession, product,
progression, provenience, pursual, pursuance, pursuit, queue,
range, rank, recurrence, remainder, result, resultant,
reticulation, rotation, round, routine, row, run, scale, sequel,
sequela, sequent, serial order, series, set, shadowing,
single file, spectrum, string, subordination, subsequence,
succession, supervenience, supervention, swath, system, tailing,
thread, tier, trailing, train, upshot, windrow
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
sequence
A collection of related things in a specific order. In
mathematics, numbers are represented as sequences of digits
e.g. bits, decimal digits, hexadecimal digits, etc.
There are also sequences of numbers where each number is
related to previous numbers, e.g. the Fibonacci sequence.
In computing the sequence of instructions that a computer
follows when executing a program is called control flow; a
sequence of characters is also known as a "(character)
string" (e.g. an escape sequence); a sequence of images
forms a video; a sound recording is an example of a sequence
of samples of an analogue signal. In probability
theory, a sequence of events can be described by a Markov
chain.
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